Jonathan Majors is among the most prominent names in the MCU, with his character of Kang the Conquerer. The actor came to the limelight with his film The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and he received the Primetime Emmy Award for his acting skills in Lovecraft Country. The actor gained worldwide fame with the roles in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and the boxing flick Creed 3.
The actor comes from a humble background, and his mother is a Pastor. The Harder They Fall star opened up about a childhood incident that led to his juvenile detention.
Jonathan Majors opens up on his childhood struggles
Majors grew up in a humble family, and his father abandoned the family when he was around eight or nine years old. The lacking of a guiding figure left some internal chaos in the little child, which came out as aggression in his adolescence. The actor joined boxing, but it wasn’t very helpful for him as he was very sensitive. Majors recalled,
“At that time, my father had been gone for a long time. The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don’t know he’s absent. You just think he’s… tardy. To stay with the school metaphor. He’s comin’ back. He’s dad, he’s gonna come back! Around 13, it dawned on me that I had been abandoned. And that I was now the head of the household.”
He was caught shoplifting at the young age of 13 years, and a few months later, he was again arrested for assaulting a classmate after he teased him.
Jonathan Majors punched his teacher in school
Jonathan Majors had a tough time dealing with the fact that his father had abandoned him. The shoplifting case also became another reason for his increasing internal rage. He shared an incident from school, where he got into a major fight that landed him in jail. Devotion actor shared,
“The teacher asked me a question, I told him, ‘I don’t know the answer, man. Not today. It’s a bad time.’ My punkass classmate said something, I got up, and I popped him. Teacher intervened, popped the teacher. That put me on an alternative route. And thank God it did.”
It was too much for the young lad to hear another kid teasing him about his shoplifting incident, which made him lose control over his anger. Majors was sent to a juvenile detention program, where a teacher recognized that he needed an outlet for his anger and took him into an advanced theatre class. Majors shared that at the theatre, he found a place to channel his athleticism, energy, anger, and love.
Majors shared,
“I did what I was doing because I loved my mom and siblings and wanted to do something for ’em. So, yeah, it straightened me out. Straightened me out good.”
The actor’s life completely changed once he started acting and used it to channel his feelings.
Jonathan Majors was last seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and Creed 3. He will be seen in Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, to release in 2025.
Source-Rolling Stone
